It's easy to tell if you have the latest graphics driver installed. Since you installed using the Linux Mint restricted drivers pop-up I can almost guarantee that you don't have the latest. All you have to do is this: Open ATI Catalyst Control Center - should be located under Menu >> Preferences Aft...

I always figured it was a driver issue. In my experience I agree with you in that windows is MUCH faster with newer hardware since Linux drivers just aren't as good, but Linux is faster with older hardware due to the bloat of Windows. Just my opinion.

Right now I'm using Mint 8 64 bit (never thought I'd go back to Mint but windows file sharing works better than in any other distro I've tried). But for all time: Mint 8 64 - Really top notch job with this one team. Sabayon 4.2 - No other distro gives you better out of the box functionality plus the...

Well I don't know if this will help, but I am running the current version of compat in Mint 8 with an Atheros card. The steps I followed were: 1. Be sure that you have linux headers installed. 2. cd compat-wireless-2010-01-06 3. ./scripts/driver-select ath9k 4. make 5. sudo make install 6. sudo make...

I read Clem's comments in this article: http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/07/mythbuntu-and-mint-developers-pans.html and I have to say I absolutely agree. I am very grateful for Mint getting me started in Linux but the point raised in this article is a huge reason why I switched to Sabayon instead....

I saw that the previous post talks about the CX8400. I just wanted to say that I had sooooo much trouble trying to get my CX8400 to work in Elyssa with no luck. But in Felicia it works perfectly right out of the gate. The Cups people are doing a great job keeping the database pretty up to date.

So i've downloaded the source from Broadcom's site and I've been going through the readme file but i'm stuck. Here's what the instructions say: After untar'ing you should have a src and lib sub directory plus a Linux 2.6 "kbuild" external makefile (Makefile). The lib sub directory has the pre-built ...

I'm curious to know what you mean when you say faster. My experience with comparing XP to Linux Mint is that my wireless speeds are exponentially faster in Linux Mint, and my system responsiveness is also faster when dealing with many open applications as I usually do. I think that boot-up time is a...

So I went to a computer science school and gained a lot of programming skills. Fortunately I got a job as a business analyst for a software company so I don't have to be a professional coder. But I would like to pick it back up in my free time and help out Linux Mint with more than just money. So I'...

I installed the current beta version of Intrepid Ibex on a small partition of my laptop. There is a new B43 Broadcom wireless driver available in Ibex. I've heard a lot of people say it doesn't work very well but it worked flawlessly with my 4328 chipset, and the Linux driver is light years faster t...

I think removing Firefox from the distribution altogether simply for wanting to enforce their trademark is a little past extreme. I did however find Mr. Shuttleworth's comments from the first link very insightful. He basically said we should try to reasonably state our case to Mozilla for not wantin...

It's not even in Intrepid yet. They're still doing bug tests on it and once that's done it should be backported. If you are inpatient you could get them from here. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main But the newer version r...